AN EMOTIONAL MEMOIR OF FRANZ KLINE

by Fielding Dawson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 15, 1967

With the useful (if not self-serving--at least self-indulgent) qualifying adjective of the title, what can one say about this impressionistic discontinuous recollection of Kline whom Fielding (""Fee"") met when he was a student at Black Mountain. Kline thought of Fee as a brother; Fee thought of him as a father--in fact at one point ""Kissed his lips, wept hysterically,"" announced ""You are my father."" Often competed with him for the women (Dark Eyes, etc.) they wanted. From the beginning--tried to possess him ""His essence, into me...greedily selfish for that Klineness"" .... Kline and others appear--de Kooning, Jackson, writer Robert Creeley, surfacing (often boozily) in bars. Tagged ""oblique"" at the start, Kline really never becomes less so in this retrospective which is essentially private and cathartic.

Pub Date: Nov. 15, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Pantheon

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION